Installing and compiling RobotJS requires Python and Visual Studio on Windows and this takes a while to get setup. Instead we can provide pre-built binaries that can be installed using npm. This will greatly improve the end-user experience.
octalmage
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57 is related. This will cut down on the dependencies.
octalmage
on 1 Aug 2015
Would like to see that, I also want to use robotjs in an electron app for better use with other functionality where AHK won't fit.
DennisBecker
on 4 Sep 2015
写邪械褕褜 robotjs for nodejs 4
xxxalz
on 5 Nov 2015
I'm also trying to use it in an Electron app; it works perfectly on Mac but I'm having a lot of trouble getting it to work on Windows, because of these dependencies (not sure if Python and VS are not installed quite right or what). We are also eventually moving to Linux. Shipping with everything self-contained and verified working cross-platform would be awesome.
brendanadnerb
on 15 Dec 2015
+1
Ins87
on 9 Feb 2016
+1 great idea!
tukutela
on 15 Feb 2016
+1
sops21
on 18 Feb 2016
+1
tamkeen-tms
on 8 Mar 2016
+1
lukasvy
on 15 Mar 2016
+1
blak3r2
on 13 Apr 2016
+1, really need this. I would like to include it into one of Blynk App turorials!
vshymanskyy
on 2 May 2016
I'll look into it soon! When I looked into it previously I decided to wait until RobotJS was more stable. It's going to take a bunch of work, but it might be worth it at this point.
octalmage
on 2 May 2016
@octalmage have you considered prebuild instead of pre-gyp? I recommend it, if you're cool with hosting binaries on Github. Setup is almost effortless.
vweevers
on 2 May 2016
@vweevers I've never heard of it! It looks pretty easy to setup, just wonder how support and adoption is. node-pre-gyp is supported by Mapbox, and used by many huge projects. I'm not sure about prebuild. I'll look into it though!
octalmage
on 2 May 2016
Prebuilt looks really legit, and levelDOWN uses it. That's good enough for me. I'll work on this today.
Thanks @vweevers!
octalmage
on 8 May 2016
I've got most of the builds up, and RobotJS v0.4.2 is using Prebuild! Windows 64bit is missing and I'm working on those builds now.
octalmage
on 9 May 2016
Windows 64bit is up, the majority of users won't have to compile!
octalmage
on 9 May 2016
I reopened this, prebuild doesn't natively support Electron and that's an issue for me. I also want the builds to be built and published automatically, so node-pre-gyp is still something we're going to need. Prebuild works good enough for now though.
octalmage
on 25 May 2016
So it is still not possible to use RobotJS with Electron?
DennisBecker
on 22 Nov 2016
It's very possible! I do it all of the time. See:
octalmage
on 22 Nov 2016
You just have to build RobotJS for Electron.
octalmage
on 22 Nov 2016
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